DURING THE SCHOLASTIC YEAR 1838-9. ^ 175 
account of internal or external diseases, or for examination with 
regard to soundness. 
On each of these cases the Assistant Professor has given his 
opinion verbally or in writing. On many of them he has practised 
certain surgical operations. From the whole it has resulted, that 
either in the hospital or in the daily consultations, the advice and 
care of the Professor have been required for more than 2920 ani¬ 
mals. 
Beside these, the pupils of the fourth year have, under the di¬ 
rection of the Professors, practised on the animals of a great num¬ 
ber of persons in the neighbourhood of the school. 
Maladies of the chest have been very frequent in our hospital, 
and have furnished the pupils with much matter for clinical in¬ 
struction. Their attention has been especially directed by the 
Professor to the different nature and character of the various dis¬ 
eases which have been included under the generic name of pneu¬ 
monia. 
He has also endeavoured to demonstrate to them the varying 
treatment of the different forms which it exhibits. When under 
the influence of a favourable season and a good constitution, pneu¬ 
monia has the character of simple inflammation; but in other 
circumstances, in unfavourable seasons, or in debilitated constitu¬ 
tions, it is soon associated with morbid lesions that are wdth diffi¬ 
culty combatted. 
The various antiphlogistic, tonic, or revulsive means, which have 
been too exclusively employed or too much neglected by practi¬ 
tioners, have been studied with the utmost care, as to their bearing 
on the different species of pneumonia. 
The employment of chlorine gas, and in a considerable quantity, 
on animals in small stables, has in two instances cured gangrenous 
pneumonia, accompanied by symptoms so decisive that the patients 
had been abandoned as incurable. 
Glanders and Farcy. —These diseases have received the 
most earnest consideration from the Professors, not only on account 
of their serious character, but because they are evidently becoming 
more frequent among us than they used to be. In fact, more than 
150 liorses with farcy or glanders, or both, have been brought 
to our infirmary during the last year, and, the greater part of them, 
after having been previously submitted to a course of treatment of 
longer or shorter duration. In despite of all the means to which 
we have had recourse, and the frequent and free use of every 
mode of treatment which authors, and even empirics, have an¬ 
nounced as efficacious against these maladies, we must make the 
mortifying avowal that, during the past year, as in the preceding 
ones, glanders has not been cured in our infirmar}'. We must not, 
